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I know that business compliance can sometimes be overwhelming and I want to help you find your way to being and staying complaint.
THS SOURCE is a place for you to access and find out about the latest topics and insights that could impact your compliance for GDPR, ISO, Cyber Security and PCI DSS.
Howard Freeman
Global Outage saw top retailers lose many hundreds of millions in an hour
Howard Freeman, MD, Fortis DPC assesses the potential risks posed by the Fastly Outage “The recent internet outages caused by the Content Delivery Network (CDN) from Fastly last month demonstrated that CDN’s can be a single point of failure. CDN’s are...
Howard Freeman, MD, Fortis DPC claims lack of education is seeing an uprise in levels of NHS data breaches
Howard Freeman has over 30 years expertise in Cyber Security and Compliance and has supported big corporates as well as SMEs on the challenges around data compliance and GDPR serving domestic and international clients, across Europe, the USA, Australasia, South...
A safe pair of hands for SME’s tackling Information Security and GDPR
Fortis DPC demonstrates its commitment to delivering Quality Principles & Cyber Security with two accreditations Demonstrating its commitment to achieving excellent quality standards and processes, Fortis Data Protection & Compliance (DPC), which...
Is New York the next City to enforce Data Protection?
New York Consumer Privacy Bill is to be Reintroduced On 13th May 2021, New York State Senator Kevin Thomas, the Chair of New York’s Consumer Protection Committee, reintroduced the New York Privacy Act (“NYPA”). The act is designed to be a comprehensive consumer...
Practice Hub Data Breach
A story from last month that Practice Hub, an online service for Chiropractors and other practices, was breached. Details emerged in May about a serious incident involving the Practice Hub data breach. We have been working to find out exactly what has happened and...
GDPR Compliance is only ever a phone call away
BACKGROUND GFHR Consulting is as an Independent HR Consultancy based in South East England. Founded by Gemma Farina in 2010, Gemma and her team of HR experts have helped hundreds of small and medium sized organisations with their HR issues, requests and...